Somehow today’s Yahoo conference segued into a quick stop in peanut butter territory. Was it the George Washington Carver Tech show on History Channel’s Modern Marvels show that spurred it on? A friend entered the conference to relate the outcome of his week-long jury duty stint “between corporations that everyone knows” and I blurted out Jif and Skippy. A quick jog through Wikipedia gave me the link to the popular Peanut Butter Jelly time cartoon and made me Google up some Filipino recipes with peanut butter. In truth I was trying to look up the peanut butter I had as a child growing up in the Philippines, which I remembered was sealed in a glass jar and swimming in what I assumed was peanut oil. You won’t find this artery-clogging concoction in the States, to be sure. Anyway, beyond kare kare and an interesting chicken/peanut butter/hoisin recipe, there is still one peanut butter meal that rules them all.

My guilty pleasure of the day: peanut butter and butter sandwiches!